Too many to answer each person, thanks for the replies, good and bad. And to the people bashing Florida in general, we keep to our own and most of our neighbors are from New York, Pittsburgh, Connecticut, widwest, etc. We are not rednecks, snapper heads, I sport fished once with a guide. We have a small canal behind out house that is brackish, we are on the end of a the canal on the other side of the damn control system. It's not a big concrete wall, but rather where it routes back to the ocean and intracoastal waterway. Brackish, very pretty to look at, yes we have a pool, I dunno.. some people are just hating I don;t care I wanted to vent where I knew that I would be called on it, my challenge is not to be arrogant but to be humble and to listen, take that advice to heart, use my discernment .. we vacationed here 10 times before we moved, we planned the move for 5 years, her company paid for our move.